Marcus Evans

Marcus Evans

Marcus Evans is a psychoanalyst and fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was a consultant psychotherapist and mental health nurse with forty years of experience in mental health. He was head of the nursing discipline at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust between 1998 and 2018. He was also the lead clinician in the adult and adolescent service and one of the founding members of Fitzjohn’s Service for the treatment of patients with severe and enduring mental health conditions and/or personality disorders. He has written and taught extensively on applying psychoanalytic thinking in mental health settings. Karnac published the first, Making Room for Madness in Mental Health: The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communications, in 2016. His second book, Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings, introduces front-line mental health professionals to psychoanalytic thinking and was published by Routledge in 2020. The following year, his third book, Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults, written with his wife, Susan, was published by Phoenix.

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Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

by Susan Evans, Marcus Evans

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In recent years, there has been an explosion in the number of children and young people who diagnose themselves as gender dysphoric, or trans. In the UK, and worldwide, there is a growing tendency to... (more)

Identity and the Foundational Myth: Psychoanalytic Insights into Gender Distress

Identity and the Foundational Myth: Psychoanalytic Insights into Gender Distress

by Marcus Evans

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There are increasing numbers of young adults presenting with symptoms of gender distress. Marcus Evans suggests that this focus on gender funnels feelings of distress into a narrow domain of mental... (more)

Making Room for Madness in Mental Health: The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communication

Making Room for Madness in Mental Health: The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communication

by Marcus Evans

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In this book, Marcus Evans argues that in addition to providing a helpful treatment for patients who suffer from serious psychological difficulties, psychoanalytic thinking can also help mental... (more)

Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings

Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings

by Marcus Evans

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This book demonstrates the use of psychoanalytic thinking in front-line mental health settings and aims to make an approach to working with emotional and mental disturbance available to a wide range... (more)

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